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Lord Hutchinson of Lullington obituary
Celebrated criminal barrister who defended Christine Keeler, George Blake and Howard Marks, and played a key role in the Lady Chatterley trial. By Geoffrey Robertson.
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Raped By Carl Jung, Then Murdered by the Nazis
But the theft and erasure of Sabina Spielrein’s intellectual legacy by the psychoanalytic establishment may be an even more troubling crime. By Phyllis Chesler.
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How John Wayne Became a Hollow Masculine Icon
The actor’s persona was inextricable from the culture of toxic Cold War machismo. By Stephen Metcalf.
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Lost again: Echoes of a WWI hero’s suicide
Memorial Day, when Americans reckon with war’s cost, came early that year. It was Dec. 11, 1921. Three thousand people crowded into the State Armory in Pittsfield to honor the late Lt. Col. Charles W. Whittlesey, famed leader of World War I’s “lost battalion.” Now he too was lost. By Larry Parnass.
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Arms Dealers
When eight heads arrived at a shipping warehouse in Detroit, the feds uncovered some unsavory details about the little-known trade in human remains. By Peter Andrey Smith.
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The Confederate General Who Became a ‘Race Traitor’
Once General Robert E. Lee’s right-hand man, General Longstreet would become known as ‘the Judas of the Lost Cause.’ By Gil Troy.
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Theodore Dreiser’s New York
Theodore Dreiser moved to New York during the Gilded Age to become a journalist. He didn't like what he saw. By Mike Wallace.
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The Short, Sad Story of Stanwix Melville
“He seems to be possessed with a demon of restlessness,” Stanwix’s mother remarked. But his real demon was motionlessness. After eighteen months in California, Stanwix reports: “I am still stationary.” By Christopher Benfey.
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‘Dollhouses of Death’: New Hampshire woman’s crime-scene dioramas have taught investigators
Growing up in the late 19th century, Frances Glessner Lee was a typical young lady from a well-to-do family, but she had one rather unorthodox passion. Murder was her hobby. By Shawne K. Wickham.
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Pablo Neruda ‘did not die of cancer’
The left-wing poet died in 1973, weeks after a military coup led by general Augusto Pinochet.
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Bringing Back McKinley
The greatest challenge to McKinley’s reputation in the twenty-first century is the legacy of historians of the mid-twentieth century. By Michael Lind.
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When Comedians Meet, Weird Comedians
Fourteen Steven Wright appearances with Craig Ferguson on the Late Late Show
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Saving Orwell
From invading Afghanistan to dismantling Confederate monuments, George Orwell has been pressed into the service of all sorts of causes. But the real Orwell remains unknown. By Peter Ross.
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The Short, Daring Life of Lilya Litvyak
The petite Soviet fighter pilot, known as the White Rose of Stalingrad, became the first woman in history to kill enemy combatants in the air. By Edward White.
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Never Tear Us Apart
INXS
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne et al.
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Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists
Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was a comic book artist who combined blinding speed with boundless imagination. He shaped the look of Alien, Empire Strikes Back and The Fifth Element. He reimagined the Silver Surfer for Stan Lee. And he is an acknowledged influence on everyone from Japanese animating great Hayao Miyazaki to sci-fi writer William Gibson...
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You Don’t Know How It Feels
Tom Petty
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Meet King Tut’s Father, Egypt’s First Revolutionary
Akhenaten upended the religion, art, and politics of ancient Egypt, and then his legacy was buried. Now he endures as a symbol of change. By Peter Hessler.
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Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner, gone to his reward at the age of 91, was a pornographer and chauvinist who got rich on masturbation, consumerism and the exploitation of women, aged into a leering grotesque in a captain’s hat, and died a pack rat in a decaying manse where porn blared during his pathetic orgies. By Ross Douthat.
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